Roger Abbott, unidentified fan and Don Ferguson at Friday’s Air Farce taping “At least we know this is one way to get into your blog.” That was Roger Abbott’s very perceptive crack as the above photo was snapped at Friday night’s taping of the Air Farce New Year’s Eve special. The taping took place at a
It was odd, as I tell Hamilton’s CHML radio dude Scott Thompson, to be sitting in Yellowknife earlier this week and watching Southern Ontario get hammered with snow. The TV at the Explorer Hotel was hooked up to satellite, and a CHCH channel was among the options. Things looked a hell of a lot more
Crazed buzz boy at Yellowknife site of Ice Pilots NWT Hats off to History Television. After a nudge or two from this corner, they announced today they are moving the Season Two premiere of their top domestic series, Ice Pilots NWT–along with the premiere of their new Ice Road Truckers spinoff–back a week from Jan.
A Heartland Christmas draws 1.4 million Oddities always emerge as the year winds down and schedules enter full holiday shut down mode. CBC’s special celebrating 400 years of Coronation Street drew fewer viewers than the series regularly draws. Blimey! A special, two-hour Heartland Christmas episode was a winner, lassoing over 1.4 million viewers. A look at
YELLOWKNIFE, N.W.T.: Where to go to escape the snow and ice of Brampton, Ont.? Yellowknife, of course.I’m back visiting the mad men and women of Ice Pilots, NWT, the most successful Canadian debut ever on History Television. The series opened last year to 459,000 viewers. It is currently scheduled to take off for a second
Cast member Scott Grimes, co-creators Mike Barker, Matt Weitzman and Seth MacFarlane Today I’m at Toronto’s Pearson airport, en route to Yellowknife, Ice Pilots NWT country. The History Television series returns for a second season in January. Hey, any excuse to jump back into a DC3.All this flying to eventually go flying means I’ll miss tonight’s
Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Carrie Fisher shot to fame as Princess Leia in the original “Star Wars.” I remember being completely caught up in the fun of that movie in the summer of ’77. The floating car and all those Cabana critters were cool, as were those nimble cross-wing fighters. Fisher made a
Don Cherry’s been catching plenty of heat for his “pinko” prank at Toronto City Hall earlier this week. Grapes walked in like he was that WikiLeaks guy at a United Nations security council meeting and let everybody have it, right in the nuts. That musta hurt when they all rode their bikes home up Jarvis after the meeting.Hey, all I